Pressure-resisting storage tank



G. W. RUSSELL PRESSURE RESISTING STORAGE TANK Filed May 4, [U1

, Patented a. 9,1928.

UNITED STATES GORDON W. RUSSELL, 0F BROOKLINE, MASSAGE USE!!! flm n i aw srenmnn'rsmo .rormtmns xmxsran, on g V sussunln-nnsrsrrire Application filed my 4, 102a.

This invention relates to storage tanks and is particularly intended to provide a construction for large tanks that are subjected to considerable internal pressure that will quire that such tanks shall be capable of sustainin a substantial internal pressure while it is important, for practical reasons,

' and to facilitate assemblage of the tank, that aworkman shall be able to get access to all portions of the interior and that leakage shall be Wholly prevented. I

With these ends in view I have devised a principle of construction and arrangement by which the walls are staid by stay rods running through the tank in such arrangement as will afford complete accessibility for a workman to all parts, whilev effectively preventing leakage through the numerous joints rendered necessary by the stay rod construe tion used. I

These features of the invention will be ex- I plained in the following specification and will Figure 2 is a vertical section illustrating an upper corner of the tank as constructed.

Figure 3 is a detail view illustrating the provision made for preventing leakage around the joints of a lap seam.

Figure 4 is a similar view showing how the joints formed by the wall-penetrating stay rods are rendered proof against leakage.

Figure 5 is a detail view illustrating the so sectional character of the vertical stay rods.

In the practice of this invention, according to the form illustrated in the drawings, the

tank of any desired shape and dimensions is built up of plates 1, of any convenient size whose adjacent edges are overlapped and the cross rods at substantially right'angles and being placed at approximately the same .8.which are tightened against large washers ess, preferably electric welding.

fastened" together: sheaf:

through the overlappededge-portions of adacent plates and se'rving to .hold themjto gethenp y v The opposite vertical w; gether to prevent outwardli I of stay'rods 3 oia len' hto "jest aligned apertures in .t efopp site;sid; of the tank, and having screwedonthe suitable retaining nuts4 whichelampainisrgs washers 5 firmly a 'ainstth'eoutside faces of the wall plates 1. ese'horizontal' stay rods 3 are. arran ed say approximately two feet apart, and t e 'longitudinal rods intersecting level so. as to form a series of horizontal skeleton grids spaced sufiiciently apart in a vertical direction from one another to permit a man to pass between them.

The vertical stay rods 6, are preferably made in two sections with their ends adjustably connected together by turn buckles 7.

The vertical stay rods have their outer ends also screw threaded to receive holding nuts 9 through which therods pass in order to disv tribute the stressesover a substantial area around the stay wall apertures.

It will be observed that the vertical stay rods are located in the corner of each square formed by the intersecting horizontal stay rods, there being in this'case one suchverti-- cal stay rod for each square in the horizontal lattice or grid construction. This arrangement is important because it affords adequate means for staying the top and bottom walls of the tank whilenot preventing a workman from crawling or climbing into all parts of the tank.

Such a construction as that above described would, of course, be very subject to leakage on account of the numerous joints. Accordingly the edges or cracks around each joint whether of the overlapped plates, as shown 109 at 10 in Figure 3, or around the head of the bolt as shown at 11 in Figure 3, are sealed by causing a deposit or flow of metal sufiicient to seal the joint by means of a welding proc- In the same manner the bolt heads or nuts 8 and the washers 9, are integrally united with each other and with the wall plates, as

shown in Figure 4, to prevent any" possible leakage.

The vertical stay rods'fare made in sections drawn-together by turn buckles in order to faci'litatetheir assemblage in the-tank.-

By the above described arrangement of the tierods'and by electrically welding the tie rod head or nuts and their washers so asto seal each tie rod joint and each lapped'seam ofitheplates, the'whole tank is made abso- .lu'tely, tight and free .from' leakage'and 'isrendered capable of sustainin any r uired' 'degree of internal ressu're wit out buc ling.

-" The characteristic feature of the stay rod construction, therefore, resides in the "employmcnt of stay rods arranged in three series rods of each row of rows each pertpgndicular to 'theother, the

. another and being arranged in close proxim- -ity to the rods of-another row, one series of stay rods, usually the vertical series, being made in" sections coupled together byv turn- -.:buckle's or the like.

:arranged in closecliy ..What I claim is:

L A storage'tank embracing in its construction top, bottom and side walls comprising-plates tlghtly' secured together, and a series of stay rods arranged in horizontal groups at different levels, eachgroup com-v prising two angularly disposed rows of rods adjacent planes and anchored to oppose walls. tosustain outward pressure, and series of vertical stay rods an chored to the top and bottom walls and em ranged in close proximity to one or both rows P of .rods comprism the horizontal groups,

whereby the whole interior of the tank is renfidered accessible when the'stay rods are in substantially-as described.

i it 5,2; A; storage embracing in its coning spaced apart from one.

struction top, bottom and side walls, horizontal rows of horizontal stay rods arranged at different levels in the tank, adjacent cross rods arranged in rows that are adjacent to the corresponding rows of horizontal "rods,

and vertical stay rods arranged in rows adjacent to.one', or.bpth sets of horizontal stay rods, whereby 'said stay rods,'substantially as described. I

3'; A storage tankembracing in its con- Y struction top, bottom and side walls, opposed wwallsbeing anchored against buckling by stayrods, said stay rods being arranged in three series of rows each perpendicular to the other, the rods of each row being spaced apart and being arranged in close proximity "to the" rods of another row, the rods of one series bein made in sections whose adjacent ends are a j ustably coupled together by turn buckles, substantiall as described. 4. A storage tan embracing in its constructiontop, bottom and side walls, three sets of stay rods arranged so'that each set is substantially perpendicular to the others, the rods of each set being well spaced a art but arranged in proximity to the rods'o one or both of the other sets, the vertical rods being made in sections coupled together and all rods being anchored to hold opposed walls against outward pressure, substantiallj as described.

In witness whereof, I have subscribed the i above specification.

eosnou w. RUSSELL,

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